Positivity: Small miracle reunites flushed ring, owner
From Olympia, WA (HT Good News blog):
City workers retrieve $8,000 ring from sewer
Published: Saturday, May 26, 2007
OLYMPIA - It was a messy job, but two municipal employees painstakingly searched a sewage line and recovered a wedding ring.
The effort began after the Public Works Department in the state capital got a letter from Alma Coate-Wilson, 98, who wrote that she had accidentally flushed her $8,000, 1.6-carat wedding ring down the toilet in the middle of the night two months ago.
Gary Franks, a public works supervisor, said the department rarely gets such requests and usually doesn’t have the time to grant them but decided to try this time because of the circumstances.
Maintenance workers Bill Davis and Jean Wright started by sending a type of television camera through the sewer line.
When that didn’t work, they flushed the main line, blocking solids using pea gravel. Finally, they went through the solids with a garden hose and found the ring.
Four city employees returned it to Coate-Wilson this week.
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